Guerrilla Mail, your signup solution
SEE ALSO: my comparative review of Guerrilla Mail, Mailinator, MintEmail and Dodgeit.
Check out Guerrilla Mail. This is a fantastic idea that I can’t believe I’ve only recently found. For all those sites that require you to sign up with an email address to whom you really don’t care to hand over your contact info, Guerrilla Mail comes to the rescue.
You go to the site and click the “get temporary e-mail” link. That’s it. It provides you with an email address for 15 minutes, you reload the page to check for new emails. You can click a button to extend it for another 15 mintues. It is so simple and perfect for it’s purpose. That’s what I mean when I suggested keeping the interface simple, there’s a few things going on in the backend, but for the user - all there is a page and a reload button. Awesome. It more or less washes away some privacy issues, definitely gets rid of any spam problems that might crop up because of a user registration process and lets you get on with your web surfing.
Just a quick and easy way to get a temporary email. Grab an email, register an account, wait for the verification email and voila. It opens up lots of problems for sites that rely on it being at least moderately difficult to get new email addresses, but I guess that’s life. Check it out.
March 21st, 2007 at 5:07 am
Thanks for your nice review. I am delighted that you like our service :-)
March 21st, 2007 at 11:19 am
I’ve been using a one-two punch of Mailinator and BugMeNot for years. But the more options, the better!
March 21st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
GM, thanks for stopping by! I love this service. :)
Jason - bugmenot is definitely a great thing. Hadn’t seen mailinator before it seems very like Guerrilla mail with a little bit of a convenience sprinkled on. Pretty cool! I wonder if you pick a common address if you go there to find spam already waiting for you! Heh, I need to check out mailinator some more, thanks for the pointer!
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:47 pm
I use to use mailinator.com. But now I use http://www.mintemail.com. What I really like about mintemail is that it automatically assigns an email address (you don’t need to press copy and paste) and secondly, you don’t need to constantly reload the page. It will automatically update the title of the page when an email is received.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:58 am
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